GENDER STEREOTYPING. ― defined as the beliefs humans hold about the characteristics associated with males and females.

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GENDER STEREOTYPING

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― defined as the beliefs humans hold about the characteristics associated with males and females.

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Problems Exist: One occurs when the characteristics associated with a particular gender have a negative image. Second occurs when a unique individual is assumed to have all the characteristics associated with his or her gender.

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Gender Ideologies attitudes towards men’s and women’s roles. attitudes regarding the appropriate roles, rights, and responsibilities of women and men in society.

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STEREOTYPE – a schema or a set of beliefs about a certain group of people. GENDER – role stereotype are the features we assign to men and women in our society, features that are not assigned due to biologocal sex but due to the social roles and that men and women hold.